The Book of Dreams

Author	Hal Clement
ISBN	0380006359

The Hunter and his quarry raced through space—when suddenly both ships crashed head on into one of the oceans of earth!

Both the Hunter and his quarry were symbiotes—creatures who had to live within the body of another organism.

When the Hunter emerged from his wreck of a ship,...

Author	Lester del Rey
ISBN	0590025341

This is a science fiction story about what it would be like to go back 80 million years in time and see what the Earth was like then.

A scientist has created a device that tunnels through time. The protagonist is his son, 17 year old Bob Miller. Bob and his father's friend, Doc Tom, and Doc Tom's son...

Author

Edgar Pangborn

In their attitude towards the Planet Earth, the Martians had long been divided into two camps: the Observers, benevolent meddlers in human affairs; & the rebellious Abdicators, who sought the Earth's collapse. But it wasn't until the extraordinary matter of the Earth-Boy, Angelo Pontevecchio,...

Author

Vernor Vinge

This second novel by multiple award-winner Vernor Vinge, from 1976, is a fast-paced adventure where galactic policies collide and different cultures clash as two scientists and their faith in technology are pitted against an elusive race of telekinetic beings.

Marooned on a distant world...

Author	Henry Kuttner
ISBN	0575071419

Classic SF from '47. It isn't bad and it has a solid plot thread and a very streamlined theme, from breaking off the yoke of immortals only to realize you are one, to founding a rebellion allowing all the people to earn their own immortality and a place in the sun. (On Venus, nonetheless.)

I don't...

Author	Robert Sheckley
ISBN	0441663850

Pilgrimage to Earth is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in October 1957 by Bantam Books (catalogue number A1672) and already reprinted a month later.

It includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared...

Author

Samuel R. Delany

In a city halfway across the galaxy an alien intelligence was addressing the strangest delegation since time began: "We have called you here to help us. Our universe has been invaded by the Lord of the Flames. He has been gathering information on many worlds for a full-scale attack. He is now preparing...

Author	Brian W. Aldiss
ISBN	0755100565

My second read by Aldiss and just as enjoyable. This is from the golden age of scifi or thereabout, 9 thematically connected stories about the future of the Earth. Of course that is much too vague, since most if not all science fiction deals with that very subject, but this is specifically the projected...

Author	David A. Kyle
ISBN	0552116696

Edward E. "Doc" Smith's visionary Lensmen series of stories began in 1934 in the pages of Amazing Stories, and when it finished in 1948 it was universally recognized as the greatest space opera yet written. In telling the tale of a cosmos-spanning battle between good and evil, the Lensmen saga encompassed...

Author	E.C. Tubb
ISBN	0441142613

Still driven by his search for Man's fabled birthplace, Earl Dumrest accepts a commission to guard the Lady Derai, heiress to the proud House of Caldor, on the feudal world of Hive. On Derai's home planet, Dumarest had hoped to meet a living witness to Earth. But instead he finds himself in the lists of...

Author	Philip José Farmer
ISBN	0425040410

DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS A TUNNEL UNDER HELL?

That this Universe is a toy? That the hideous Saviors rule, and have ruled, since Time began three Time-beginnings back? That they formed Man and Earth, body disc and soul print, and alien too?

And that they made mistakes? Oh, they made terrible...

Author	Mark Phillips
ISBN	1434401561

"Mark Phillips" was the pseudonym of two well-known science fiction writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle names (Philip and Mark), was coined soon after their original meeting, at a science-fiction convention. Both men were drunk at the...

Author	Frank Herbert
ISBN	0345298594

Description: Twenty subtugs had been lost in the attempt to bring back oil from the undersea fields on the enemy's borders. A brilliant psychologist-electronics expert is planted in the crew of the subtug Ram to find out what is happening. And theory becomes terrifying reality when, miles deep under...

Author	Jo Clayton
ISBN	0886771269

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Sold into slavery to an insectoid race, Aleytys had been chosen as proxy-mother to the old Queen's successor. In short, like an Earth wasp's prey, she would be birth bearer and food for that which was to come.

Had Aleytys been any other human,...

Author	Gordon R. Dickson
ISBN	0786257369

This book started out promising. Hal was part of an occupying force on a planet because that's what we do. Just ask the American Indians. The aliens were trying to fight humans off and this time having success. Things looked bleak for our occupying forces. To maintain planetary dominance we were going...

Author	A.E. van Vogt
ISBN	0881848832

One of the finest writers in the golden age of science fiction--and inventor of the intricatley plotted form of SF known as the "space opera"--offers the story of a flawed hero possessing almost superhuman strength. When his wife is kidnapped, war veteran Jim Pendrake embarks upon a search that takes...

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0586041222

I'll admit it, I haven't read much Asimov. After reading The Last Question, I was totally blown away. After reading Foundation #1 I was super disappointed by both style and characters. So I came to The Stars in their Courses with some ambivalence and no expectations.

Had I read it in a different...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0575075015

Robert Silverberg has been nominated for and won more awards for his fiction than any other writer in the science fiction genre. This classic, now finally back in print, sweeps us--and Clay, the main character--into Earth's far-away future. It's a time when no one has heard of Shakespeare, Mozart,...

Author	E.E. "Doc" Smith
ISBN	0586043357

A perfect mix of science fiction and a spy / adventure novel from the elder statesman of the space opera (E. E. "Doc" Smith) and his co-author (Stephen Goldin). The d'Alembert siblings, Yvette and Jules, are super secret special agents for the intergalactic government who also happen to be seasoned...